Sean Egan spake unto us the following wisdom:
> On 11/9/05, Ethan Blanton <eblanton@...> wrote:
> > If you have no IRC "buddies" in your buddy list, then I don't think
> > Gaim should be polling the server. If you believe you do not have any
> > buddies in your list, and it is polling the server, can you take a
> > network trace and see what it's doing?
>=20
> Are we sending pings if the user has no buddies? We should.
I disagree. At the most, we should send pings if there is no other
traffic. And it should NOT be on the order of 30 seconds.
Ethan
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The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
for evils]. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:24:45 -0800, "Sean Egan" <seanegan@...>
said:
> On 11/9/05, Ethan Blanton <eblanton@...> wrote:
> > If you have no IRC "buddies" in your buddy list, then I don't think
> > Gaim should be polling the server. If you believe you do not have any
> > buddies in your list, and it is polling the server, can you take a
> > network trace and see what it's doing?
>
> Are we sending pings if the user has no buddies? We should.
Well, that's the problem. My institution treats the every-minute pings
sent by gaim as an indication that my box is owned. So my MAC gets shut
out of the campus backbone. This makes it kinda hard for me to do my
job.
I suspect that it's easier for me to disable gaim's pings than it is to
convince the security staff that IRC is a worthy protocol.
MSN's client pings are not a problem for the network monitoring systems,
btw.
- David
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David J. Fiander
Engineering Librarian

On 11/9/05, Ethan Blanton <eblanton@...> wrote:
> If you have no IRC "buddies" in your buddy list, then I don't think
> Gaim should be polling the server. If you believe you do not have any
> buddies in your list, and it is polling the server, can you take a
> network trace and see what it's doing?
Are we sending pings if the user has no buddies? We should.
-s.
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